We’re sorry to be the ones to break the news to you, but unless you’re Roald Dahl’s biggest – and we mean BIGGEST – fan, then it’s likely you didn’t realise that his first name wasn’t pronounced like ‘Rolled’.

Footage from episode of Roald Dahl’s 1961 dark sci-fi TV show Way Out shows Roald Dahl being very clearly introduced like ‘Roo-All’. Mind = blown.

And no, we’re not making this stuff up. See for yourself.

Crazy, right?!

Of course, some of you may have already known about this revelation and are probably laughing in the faces of us unknowing Roald Dahl fans. But still, we don’t believe you as it was said in every classroom since the dawn of Charlie’s Chocolate Factory.

So don’t worry if you were, like us, among the people who didn’t know – it turns out his name is pronounced this way for a reason.

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That reason being that Roald Dahl’s name has a Norwegian pronunciation as his parents were Norwegian, and he was named after Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian polar explorer and hero of his father’s.